Claranet operate in eleven seperate countries/regions, and peer in six of these:

• The United Kingdom
• France
• Germany
• Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemborg)
• Spain
• Portugal

We present a consistent routing policy and prefix view in every country as represented by our
AS-SET object AS-CLARANET in the RIPEDB

Our customer base consists of both private and corporate customers. Our products include fixed and mobile connectivity, transit and private cloud in both our own data centres and carrier-neutral co-location facilities. For more information about what we do, please visit us at https://www.claranet.com

Claranet operate a selective peering policy which is generally open, peers must demonstrate,observe and note the following:

Technical Requirements

• For public IPv4 peerings, peers should exchange at least 50mbit/second(public) or 150mbit/second(private) of aggregate traffic with the Claranet international network measured using "95th Percentile" in either direction continually.
• No traffic restrictions exist for public IPv6 peerings, private IPv6 peerings will normally only be configured with existing IPv4 peers but this will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
• Peers may only send unicast IPv4 or IPv6 traffic to the Claranet network for destinations where routing reachability has been announced via a mutual BGPv4 session.
• Peers may only, via a mutual BGPv4 session, announce routing reachability according to a routing policy registered in a relevant and acceptable IRR, with originated prefixes covered by a respective RPKI ROA.

Administrative Requirements

• Peers must maintain an entry in PeeringDB
• At present Claranet require peers to match its geographic footprint where possible.
• Peers must not have been a customer of Claranet or any of its subsidiaries for the past six months preceeding the application.If a customer relationship begins during a peering relationship the peering relationship must terminate.
• Peers may not be IPv4 reachable to Claranet via an existing peer of Claranet at any time.
• Peers must operate a 24x7 English speaking Network Operations Centre and must provide details to Claranet upon application. Claranet require operational requests are responded to and resolved in a timely fashion.
• Claranet do not require formal Settlement Free Interconnect (SFI) documentation to be completed.

Meeting the criteria specified here does not guarantee that Claranet will establish a peering relationship with the applicant.

Prospective applicants should send a mail to peering@clara.net if they wish to apply, we strongly advise that all sensitive data (such as keys) be encrypted with this PGP/GPG key

For more information about peering with Claranet, you can view our PeeringDB record